How many days' notice must a landlord give before raising rent in Alaska?

No rent-increase statute — notice derives from tenancy-termination rules (see summary).

Does Alaska have rent control?

No — Alaska has no statewide rent control or stabilization. No rent control exists anywhere in Alaska, neither a statewide program nor any municipal ordinance, Anchorage included.

Does Alaska preempt local rent control ordinances?

No Alaska statute expressly addresses local rent control — state law neither authorizes nor prohibits cities and boroughs from regulating rents, and none currently do.

Can a landlord raise the rent during a fixed-term lease in Alaska?

Rent under a fixed-term lease can rise mid-lease only if the lease itself provides for it. No section of AS 34.03 permits or regulates mid-term increases, and official Department of Law guidance states this expressly.

How much notice is required to raise the rent in Alaska?

Verified July 11, 2026 Correction August 26, 2026 All Alaska topics →

What did not become law. None of the following is law; failed bills are sometimes still described as if enacted:

HB 115 (34th Legislature, 2025-2026) — Would add AS 34.03.020(f): a landlord could not raise rent more than once per calendar year and would have to give written notice at least 90 days before the increase takes effect; if a tenancy ends without that notice having been given, the unit could not be re-rented above the old rent until 90 days after termination (anti-evasion clause). Applies to rental agreements entered into on or after the effective date. Would convert Alaska from a derivation state (no express rent-increase notice statute) to an express 90-day state. Status: Introduced 2025 (Rep. Gray); referred to House State Affairs and Labor & Commerce 2025-02-26 and never heard. The 34th Legislature's second regular session adjourned sine die on May 20, 2026, which ended the bill — the special sessions that followed were limited to their call and did not include it, and it is absent from the legislature's passed-legislation list for the 34th Legislature. (checked August 26, 2026).

Alaska has no statute requiring advance notice of a rent increase - the 30-day figure everyone quotes derives from AS 34.03.290(b), which lets either party end a month-to-month tenancy on at least 30 days' written notice given before the rental due date specified in the notice (14 days for week-to-week tenancies while rent is current), so a rent increase operates as a termination of the old deal plus an offer to re-rent at the new price, and the state's own guidance says a landlord 'should, therefore,' give at least 30 days' notice.

Cited to AS 34.03.290 (a), (b) and 5 more cited sources · Verified July 11, 2026

There is no limit on the size or frequency of increases and no rent control anywhere in the state, though the retaliation statute bars increases on the heels of tenant complaints or organizing unless the landlord shows a cost-justified basis. Alaska has no statute either preempting or authorizing local rent control, and no municipality - Anchorage included - has ever adopted any. A bill that would have required 90 days' notice and limited increases to once a year, HB 115, sat in its first committee from February 2025 until the 34th Legislature adjourned sine die in May 2026, which ended it.

Alaska rent increase notice at a glance

Notice — month-to-month	No rent-increase statute — notice derives from tenancy-termination rules (see summary)
Varies by increase size	Not addressed by statute
Fixed-term leases	Rent under a fixed-term lease can rise mid-lease only if the lease itself provides for it. No section of AS 34.03 permits or regulates mid-term increases, and official Department of Law guidance states this expressly. Rent is fixed for the term as a matter of contract. At expiry the landlord may propose any new rent for a renewal or subsequent tenancy.
Statewide rent control / stabilization	No
Rent control details	No rent control exists anywhere in Alaska, neither a statewide program nor any municipal ordinance, Anchorage included. The only appearance of 'rent controls' in the landlord-tenant act is inside the retaliation statute's list of government programs a tenant might complain to (AS 34.03.310(a)(4)). Rent increases in HUD- or AHFC-assisted housing may be limited by federal or agency rules, a program overlay rather than state rent control.
Local rent regulation	No Alaska statute expressly addresses local rent control — state law neither authorizes nor prohibits cities and boroughs from regulating rents, and none currently do.
Frequency limits	Not addressed by statute

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Notes and caveats

High-traffic debunk: the '30-day increase statute' does not exist — Secondary sources circulate a sentence claimed to be in AS 34.03.020 — 'The landlord may increase the rent required under a periodic tenancy by giving the tenant written notice of the increase at least 30 days before the rental due date specified in the notice.' NO such sentence exists in the official text; the FindLaw mirror (current through 2025-01-01) agrees, and no 2025-2026 enactment touched the section. It is the AS 34.03.290(b) termination formula rebadged as an express increase statute.
Why the notice figure is blank, not zero — Alaska has no express rent-increase notice statute. AS 34.03.290(b) addresses only TERMINATION and never mentions rent increases or term changes — the only 'increase' language anywhere in ch. 34.03 sits in the retaliation statute — so the familiar 30-day figure is a derived rule, not a statutory one.
The derived notice anchors to the rent due date — Notice runs to 'the rental due date specified in the notice' — anchored to a rent due date, not any date the landlord designates. The week-to-week equivalent is 14 days, available only '[w]hile rent is current.'
Retaliation overlay — Under AS 34.03.310, a rent increase after protected tenant conduct is prohibited retaliation, with (d) exceptions where the landlord became liable for substantially increased taxes or costs at least 4 months before demanding the increase (and the increase bears a reasonable relationship to the cost rise) or completed a substantial capital improvement.
Local rent control: neither preempted nor authorized, and never tried — No express preemption or authorization exists anywhere in Alaska law. Neither AS Title 29 (chs. 29.10-29.71, including 29.35 municipal powers and 29.40 planning) nor ch. 34.03 contains any rent-control provision or exclusivity clause. The Alaska Constitution's art. X liberal-construction rule means a home-rule municipality could arguably act, but the question is untested and no ordinance has ever existed.
No frequency limit — the bill to add one died — Nothing anywhere in ch. 34.03 limits how often rent may rise. HB 115 would have added a once-per-year limit; it died in committee when the 34th Legislature adjourned sine die on May 20, 2026.
An orphaned rent-increase regulation still prints in the administrative code — Chapter 3 AAC 90, Emergency Rent Review, contains a section requiring 30 days' written notice of a rent increase with the specific reasons stated. The chapter applies only where the governor has declared a housing emergency under AS 34.06.020, and the statutory chapter it hangs on, AS 34.06, was repealed in 1975. No Alaska landlord is subject to it today.

Common questions: Alaska rent increase notice

Each answer is the verified value from the table above, restated as a direct answer. Free to quote with a link to this page.

How many days' notice must a landlord give before raising rent in Alaska?: No rent-increase statute — notice derives from tenancy-termination rules (see summary).
Does Alaska have rent control?: No — Alaska has no statewide rent control or stabilization. No rent control exists anywhere in Alaska, neither a statewide program nor any municipal ordinance, Anchorage included.
Does Alaska preempt local rent control ordinances?: No Alaska statute expressly addresses local rent control — state law neither authorizes nor prohibits cities and boroughs from regulating rents, and none currently do.
Can a landlord raise the rent during a fixed-term lease in Alaska?: Rent under a fixed-term lease can rise mid-lease only if the lease itself provides for it. No section of AS 34.03 permits or regulates mid-term increases, and official Department of Law guidance states this expressly.
How often can a landlord raise the rent in Alaska?: Not addressed by statute.

Changes since last full verification

The Verified date above (July 11, 2026) marks the last time every figure on this page was verified end-to-end against official state sources. The changes below were published since then, each verified against the official source it names (what these dates mean).

Correction, August 26, 2026 — Same-page consistency corrections: prose on the South Carolina and Iowa application-fee pages, the Delaware eviction page, and the Alaska rent-increase page described bills as still in committee after their assemblies had adjourned sine die; each passage now states the bill's outcome. No statute-derived figure or rule changed.

Citations

AS 34.03.290 · (a), (b) (verified 2026) Official source
AS 34.03.020 · (a)-(e) (contains no rent-increase provision) (verified 2026) Official source
AS 34.03.310 · (a), (d) (verified 2026) Official source
Alaska Dept. of Law, The Alaska Landlord & Tenant Act: what it means to you (2024) · p. 21 ('Can the landlord raise the rent?') (verified 2026) Official source
Alaska Court System, PUB-30 Alaska Landlord and Tenant Act handbook (10/18) (verified 2026) Official source
3 AAC 90.010, 3 AAC 90.020 (Emergency Rent Review; operative only under a housing emergency declared under repealed AS 34.06) · 3 AAC 90.010, .020 (verified 2026) Official source

How this record was verified: Direct read of statute text on the official Alaska State Legislature site (www.akleg.gov, Alaska Statutes 2024 infobase, read via its print-format section pages): AS 34.03.070, 34.03.140, and 34.03.290 each read twice through independent paths (the single-section view plus a different-range view) with byte-identical results, and AS 34.03.020 read twice to verify the negative (no rent-increase language). The complete chapter (all 44 sections, 34.03.010-34.03.380) was read in one pass and every section heading enumerated for the verified-negative sweeps (no late-fee, grace-period, interest, unconscionability, rent-control, or preemption provision). Every figure that decides an answer here was additionally reconciled against three more sources: the enrolled text of HB 282 (28th Leg.), Ch. 27 SLA 2014, read in full on the official BASIS bill-text system (pins the pet-deposit subsection, the per-tenant trust-accounting rules, and the 30-day damages exception to the 14-day return track, all added 2014); the Alaska Department of Law's official 2024 pamphlet 'The Alaska Landlord & Tenant Act: what it means to you' (law.alaska.gov); and the Alaska Court System's PUB-30 handbook (public.courts.alaska.gov, 10/18 ed.). FindLaw's mirror (current through 2025-01-01) matched the official 34.03.070 text verbatim as a second-path check. Preemption negative run against a single-pass official sweep of AS Title 29 (Municipal Government, chs. 29.10-29.71 including 29.35 powers and 29.40 planning): zero rent-control or landlord-tenant provisions. Legislative check 2026-07-11 on official BASIS: all 97 bills passed by the 34th Legislature (2025-2026, status dates through 2026-07-09) enumerated - none on-topic (SB 50, Ch. 19 SLA 25, is municipal comprehensive planning only); full introduced-bill sweep found one pending on-topic bill, HB 115 (90-day rent-increase notice), idle in House State Affairs since 2025-02-26 - flagged, not incorporated. September 5, 2026 addendum: the decisive figures touched by the 2025-2026 enactments reviewed that day were re-read on the official host — AS 09.45.090 and 3 AAC 90 on akleg.gov; the earlier reads stand as recorded.